"We clawed back €38,000 in Booking.com commissions in the first year."
A family-run boutique hotel on the Algarve coast installed sem.chat after tracking that 71% of their bookings came through Booking.com at a 17% commission. Within 90 days, their direct-booking share climbed from 29% to 46%. Most of the lift came from late-evening inquiries — guests researching in their own language, in their own timezone, long after the reception desk had closed.
They now answer in Portuguese, English, German and French automatically, with zero additional staff.